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Topic: 1949: A Sign of the Times

Written by the published fucking author of "Two Gentlemen of Lebowski," Adam Bertocci, based on an instant message story meeting on two days ago. Script delivered yesterday. Filmed about ten hours ago.

Cinematography by Brian, the lovely lady is Carolyn Siegel (from Movers, if you hadn't noticed) and the rest is me. (Visual effects, music, color correction, editing, so on.)

This came about because I worked my ass off on a really effective method for two-strip color emulation in After Effects. I wrote a detailed tutorial here, as well as included presets and project files.

Re: 1949: A Sign of the Times

Re: 1949: A Sign of the Times

The whole sign is CG, and about twice the size it should be from this distance. (It works pretty well, because that's pretty much what the hill would look like if you were twice as close to it. We just...weren't twice as close to it.) The company logo is CG, the WB tower was added last minute, the DC-3 is CG. The two-strip is obviously a complicated lil' effect.

Re: 1949: A Sign of the Times

Finally got a chance to check this out, and nicely done gents...and lady.

Plane looks awesome, not much I can really comment on (Especially considering the time constraints), but the sign just wasn't working for me. The letters felt way to light and didn't really look like they were falling properly, and the sound effect you guys used was way too flimsy and loud, to actually sound like it was coming from the letters. If you absolutely wanted to make the letters sound that ridiculously loud a very echoes would have helped sell it.

Otherwise, love the 2-strip...(still need to play with that) and I love the concept. Well done.